This past weekend, Kent State held its annual Philosophy Graduate Student Conference. As a graduate student in the program, we work on this conference for both fall and spring semesters - putting out numerous calls for papers, reviewing papers, getting all of our cards in order, etc. This year, since Tim and I live in a house, we thought "sure we will house two of the incoming graduate students. No problem." When it came to assigning the graduate students, we took up two of the students who were flying in from CAK - it is no more than ten minutes from our house, relatively convenient. So we have these two students staying with us - one guy from Loyola Marymount out in LA and another from Marquette. Well, again, conveniently they arrived on the same AirTran flight out of Milwaukee. Not too bad. Here's where it gets "good", or so they say... We are all walking out of the airport and I mentioned to the LA kid that Tim and I had been in LA for the MLS Cup in '08. Well, the Marquette guy is like: "yeah, what club?" "Crew," I reply. "That's the wrong side." - Marquette "Why? What team do you support?" - me The guy is a diehard F!re fan - has even been banned from CCS back at the Open Cup in '98. Needless to say, he walked to our car (decked out in Crew, yellow car). He was like 'oh god.' Then, when he walked into our house, he was like "un-*****-ing-believable, how did I get stuck with the hardcore Crew fans in NE Ohio?" (Our house is pretty much Crew all over...) It was pretty much the running joke the whole weekend. At night, I was like: "Hey if you don't slit our throats in the middle of the night, I will do the same for you. Thanks." Also, apparently, I appear and talk like a perfectly intelligible, rational human being... But according to this F*re fan, I am the -Quote- angel of darkness. -End Quote- Karma, folks? Is it? Or just an odd and twisted coincidence?
Hmm... 'Philosophy' student! Banned from Crew Stadium. Fire Supporter. Kharma. Helluva start for a great career. Whatever. Great cover post... Too late now but a hint for future: Heavy duty Ty-Raps {nylon handcuff ties}, 6 ft square nylon cargo net. cast iron wheel weights or manhole covers. At least 25 ft deep area in old quarry with stagnant water. Good Luck
Great story, Chelsey. The chances of meeting an opposing fan at a graduate student conference? Pretty slim. Chances of HOUSING an opposing fan for the conference? Slim to none! Crazy. I wonder if he posts on BigSoccer.....
ouch. But we have a club team... P.S. This is my first semester, I lived in Chicago for the last two and a half years. I have loyalties.
At least OU produced Bob Bradley before they axed their team. Did Kent ever have one? Kill it with fire.
Kick him to the curb if he can't handle the black and gold. Another tagline: If he doesn't like the black and gold, turn him black and blue.
Thomas Flanagan references are one the jokes on Jeff Foxworthy's forthcoming "You may spend too much time on Bigsoccer" album.